Example sentences of "must [not/n't] be told " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR 4 , 19. proverb , something else which the … says must not be told of afterwards , i.e. a kiss , a reference to the traditional proverb about the reprehensibility of kissing and telling . |
| 2 | In so doing he permitted Isis to reveal the name to her son Horus but ordered that it must not be told to anyone else . |
| 3 | We have indicated that the unthinking and undiscriminating use of questions — often closed or low-level — may reflect what we term a ‘ taboo on didacticism ’ , a sense that children at all costs must not be told . |
| 4 | ‘ What a set-up for a young lass when her father must n't be told she goes to a dance , ’ said Lizzie , which brought forth from Peggy the sharp and quizzical retort , ‘ Remember , Mam , when I was fifteen I was n't allowed out at all after six o'clock unless you were with me . ’ |
| 5 | She must n't be told , he 'd said . |